Word: prods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them to handle their internal affairs but intervenes discreetly to make sure all tribes are consulted on local government decisions. Although Gowon rose to power as strongman of an army coup eight years ago, he believes that "you must bring all factions into the process, consult them, advise them, prod them, but above all, make them part of things. It is the only way to build a true nation...
...COLC simultaneously ordered a penny-a-gallon cut in wholesale gasoline prices, but consumers will never see that one; it will be overwhelmed by other in creases permitted due to rising prices for crude oil. The purpose of the two moves is to prod refineries to shift more of their output to home heating oil by making it more profitable to produce, compared with gasoline...
...myriad questions arise, most of them unanswerable in any concrete terms. How good is this doctor? How good was his school? How good was his hospital training? Has he kept up with medical progress? The last is the easiest to answer. Often he has not, because there is no prod beyond his own conscience for him to do so. The American Academy of Family Physicians requires its 35,000 members to take 150 hours of refresher courses in every three years and annually expels about 350 for failure to do so. But this does not keep these men from practicing...
...winter, the burros move across the field, instinctively following the course to the spring in the canyon two miles away; they return with castanas full for the day's cooking and washing and drinking. The husbands, wives, sons or daughters prod them on with a stick...
...dress. The tally may be kept on a blackboard, and, when a positive total of, say, 30 is reached, the boy will be rewarded with a trip to Disneyland. Conversely, enough demerits might result in the loss of television privileges. The aim of this stern regimen is to prod the boys into masculinity through rewards and penalties...